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Multi-Media by Now in a NEW Multimedia E-book A classic endgame work by one of the great endgame masters of all time. By concentrating on the basic principles the average player is not only given a working knowledge of the endgame but also a firm foundation on which to further develop his or her interest and technique in this fascinating stage of a chess game. The author, a Russian Grandmaster and endgame expert, takes the reader from the most elementary checkmates, through the exploitation of positional and material advantage, right up to the analysis of actual endings from master play. Chess Multimedia
Starting from this consideration a staff of chessplayers, programmers and designers created Chess Multimedia: a new way to read chess books: While you are comfortably sitting in an armchair, a speaker reads the text to you and, just as smoothly, the teaching positions with all its variations can be seen by a simple click. But that's not all! The Chess Multimedia book also allows you to do many other things, such as searching for words, adding personal notes, bookmarking, printing, analyzing the position with a chess engine, etc. At the end you can verify how much you understood by performing tests with or without help (subtle or broad suggestions about the moves to be made, on the key square, about the underlying idea, etc). You can even be assigned an ELO rating in order to monitor your improvement. In this first volume of the series, GM Averbakh unveils the secrets of all the fundamental endings, so that you will be ready to face the chess arena with powerful new tools in your hands. U$
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This remarkable multimedia e-book covers chess strategy from open files to isolated pawns, with all the advantages of a multimedia book such as searching for words, adding personal notes, bookmarking, printing, analyzing the position with a chess engine, etc. This multimedia e-book makes improving your chess strategy fun! Clearly strategy has been with us since the beginning of the game, but a strategy based on pawn structure (and subsequently the placing of both pieces and pawns) was not developed until Philidor came along. Strategic theory was first analyzed by Steinitz. Subsequently, Tarrasch, Nimzowitsch, and the so-called "hypermoderns" (Reti, Tartakower) and other twentieth century masters made important contributions to chess theory. Today chess strategy develops as the game evolves, but the classic fundamentals of theory remain the same. Strategy can be broken down into a number of topics: 1.
Open files These topics are dealt with in the first eleven chapters. Chapter 12, a little longer, deals with a fundamental strategic idea: the center. Charter 13 discusses how to assess positions and planning as a synthesis of the strategic elements discussed in the previous chapters. Chapters 14-16 examine strategic methods: attack, defense, counterattack and slow maneuvering. The final chapters deal with some important strategic questions: the isolated pawn, hanging pawns, prophylaxis and exchanges. Famous games have been used to exemplify the text and the strategic concepts discussed; occasionally, less well-known contemporary games for current tournament practice have been used. Although it is increasingly difficult to draw a line between the opening and middlegame or the middlegame and endgame, the openings leading to certain types of middlegame are not discussed in this book. The middlegame is discussed in terms of concepts that refer chiefly to this phase of the game and have three pieces (plus the Queen) or four pieces (without Queens). The resulting endgames are omitted or given without comment. The "test" section poses problems relating to all the subjects dealt with in the previous chapters. Readers should try to solve the problems mentally, without a chessboard. The moves showing the right strategic idea are sufficient. The solutions include the final moves of each game. U$
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